I confirmed that this happens with Evolution 3.22.6 and Outlook 2016.
The culprit appears to be the tag Evolution uses to quote the original
message:

<blockquote type="cite">[original message]</blockquote>

I did a quick search for the type="cite" attribute and found very
little about it other than it doesn't seem to be part of any standard
that Outlook should be expected to adhere to. It was/is used by
Thunderbird and has caused similar problems to the one you're
experiencing (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183219).

Does anyone know more about this type="cite" attribute and why
Evolution uses it for quotes?

On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 11:05 +0200, Martin Dietze wrote:
> Like probably many others I use Evolution in a vastly
> Outlook-dominated environment.
> 
> Sometimes (shame on me) I reply to HTML mails in HTML (e.g. when I
> don't want to add confusion by removing inline images etc.). I
> however
> don't top-post, i.e. put my replies under quotes.
> 
> Lately colleagues have started complaining because they cannot
> distinguish between quoted text and my replies. After checking I
> found
> out that quoited text from Evolution is displayed in Outlook simply
> as
> indented text, and this is indeed very confusing. Why does the blue
> bar on the left does not display in Outlook as in the editor when
> composing my reply?
> 
> As this is now, the feature is pretty unusable, because I need to
> pimp
> quoted text using some formatting (underline, italic etc.) to make it
> distinguishable from my reply.
> 
> I could not find any setting that would allow me to change this
> behaviour. I am using Evolution 3.20.
> 
> Bug or feature?
> 
> (and, no, I cannot really tell about 100 colleagues to set up Outlook
> in some particular way or tell Microsoft to fix their crappy
> software)
> 

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